Part 3

DAVID EVANS SUPT. PLANTING & HOEING

CORA SKINNER CHIEF ACCOUNTANT

CHARLES WALTER SUPT. SOIL PREPARATION

HARRY SMITH MGR. TRACTOR DEPARTMENT

H.W. OSBORNE CHIEF MECHANIC

JESSE EVANS OVERSEER BUILDINGS & GROUNDS]

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The Universal Everbearer]

Rev. J. R. Reasoner, Originator of the World-Famed Senator Dunlap and Dr. Burrill Varieties, Endorses Kellogg Statements and Methods

Originator of Senator Dunlap and Dr. Burrill]

The following tribute from Rev. J. R. Reasoner, veteran strawberry grower and originator of Senator Dunlap and Dr. Burrill, two of the most popular varieties ever introduced--(each the result of many years of untiring effort in scientific crossing and breeding)--should be of special significance to every one who grows or contemplates growing strawberries. Dr. Reasoner is of quiet, unassuming disposition. To know is to love, respect and admire this grand old gentleman to whom honor and right are paramount. He has been acquainted with us for years and his selection of our Company to present to the world Dr. Burrill, the Million Dollar Strawberry, was a substantial expression of the tribute presented below. Read his letter:

URBANA, ILL., August 10, 1921.

R. M. KELLOGG CO., Three Rivers, Mich.

Gentlemen:

For many years I have read with considerable interest “Great Crops of Strawberries and How to Grow Them” and have been very favorably impressed with your fair, honest descriptions of varieties and the scientific methods under which Kellogg Pedigree Plants are produced. Your claims of superiority impress me as being fully justified.

Your efforts in improving the strawberry, stimulating its culture and especially in encouraging the home strawberry garden are highly commendable. I am convinced that you are doing a wonderful work and that as plant breeders, you rank among the country’s great benefactors.

If I were twenty-five years younger and in good health, I would again engage in plant breeding but when a fellow reaches my age, he loses his recuperative forces.

My Senator Dunlap and Dr. Burrill were not financial successes to me counting the years of labor required to perfect them, but the satisfaction that they have been of such great benefit to humanity is ample compensation to me.

You have my best wishes for abundant success which you so fully deserve and I hope that you may realize your largest expectations.

J R Reasoner]

Never have we known of a single instance in which a visit here failed to convince that everything is just as we represent or even better. The following is an extract from a letter written us by one of the officials of the Michigan Horticultural Department upon receiving our catalog:

“I have read your new catalog with much interest. It not only should attract present and prospective strawberry growers but its illustrations and descriptions give a very accurate idea of your different varieties as I have seen them growing on the Kellogg Farm.”

Kellogg Pedigree Plants and How They Are Produced

A juicy, tender sirloin costs more than a chuck steak; silver although it glitters is not as valuable as gold and you would expect to pay more for a wool garment than one of a lower grade fabric.

These comparisons emphasize the fact that any article of superior quality--whether food, clothing, luxury, or any commodity--even though sold at a higher price, invariably proves the best and most economical investment.

Ranking as ‘top-notchers’ in every test, dependable as Mother Nature herself and yielding berries of a quality unsurpassed in delicious flavor and smooth texture by anything in the fruit or vegetable kingdom, it is not surprising that Kellogg Pedigree Plants are the choice of such a vast majority of strawberry growers. Many of these growers too are shrewd, seasoned business men and women whose intimate contact with industry has taught them the folly of seeking bargains and the wisdom in investing only where quality is assured. Theirs is indeed a wise discrimination in selecting Kellogg Pedigree Plants for nowhere is the lack or presence of quality more convincingly shown than in strawberry plants at fruiting time.

We of course claim superiority for Kellogg Pedigree Plants. This you would naturally expect and our strongest claims would count for naught were they not verified by thousands who know and grow them. Throughout this book we have reproduced reports selected at random as representative of many which have come to us from growers whose interest in our plants exists merely because they have found them in every way the most profitable and desirable. If better plants were to be had they would readily plant and endorse them.

Reasons for Superiority